...Catherine Ashton spent two days here promising unspecific support for a new Ukrainian government but urging it not to break close trading and cultural links with Russia. Ms. Ashton’s deft dance was inevitable - the European Union and the West are not willing or capable of bailing out Ukraine’s economy, especially if Moscow retaliates with new punitive tariffs, higher prices for natural gas and a cutoff of significant ties to Ukrainian factories and businesses...
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/world/europe/tentatively-european-union-weighs-its-options-on-support-for-a-new-ukraine.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=1 Я думаю обойдемся без комментариев.